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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






2. What are healthy sources of fats?






3. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






4. Fats can lead to some medical problems






5. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






6. When does BMR increase?






7. Where can you get more vitamin D?






8. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






9. What is the function of vitamin E?






10. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






11. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






12. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






13. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






14. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






15. The higher the BMR a client has --






16. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






17. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






18. What function is vitamin A?






19. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






20. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






21. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






22. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






23. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






24. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






25. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






26. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






27. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






28. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






29. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






30. What function is vitamin D?






31. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






32. What is RDA of protein?






33. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






34. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






35. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






36. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






37. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






38. What foods have high quality protein?






39. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






40. Sources of fats






41. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






42. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






43. What type of people need extra protein?






44. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






45. What does DASH stand for?






46. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






47. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






48. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






49. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






50. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?